Place Name
Agricultural heritage. This name preserves the old rite of Lammas, the first day of August, formerly observed as harvest festival, otherwise known as the loaf mass or bread feast until Lady Day (March 25). After the crop had been gathered the land was made available as pasture for the village cattle. It was laid out over Ham Fields. Lammas Lands were freed of their rights by the act of 1902 that preserved the view from Richmond Hill. This was first named around 1945.
